adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
unduly worried/concerned/anxious etc
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She doesn’t seem unduly concerned about her exams.
worried/concerned/anxious etc lest ...
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He paused, afraid lest he say too much.
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She worried lest he should tell someone what had happened.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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also
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It was also concerned with the effect of nationalized industry deficits on public borrowing and hence on inflation and interest rates.
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Wendy and I were at once amused and embarrassed, but also concerned lest he be mown down by a passing train.
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We are also concerned with the political environment within which all organisations operate.
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The food companies were also concerned over the absence of an irradiation test, which makes monitoring impossible.
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They were also concerned with curriculum development, advisory support and in-service education.
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Pandolfi is also concerned at the lack of funds available for research into renewable energy.
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The Government is also concerned at the way exotic birds are transported.
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She is also concerned that Amy is not putting on weight and that Keith disregards her.
deeply
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They are deeply concerned about the scientists' inability to explain the dramatic changes they see in nature.
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We are deeply concerned for the fate of all those thousands of women and men who remain in prison.
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Many people are deeply concerned about the neglect of crofting land.
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The Government are deeply concerned that they may lose seats south of the border as a result of the community charge.
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Yes, I am still deeply concerned with the movement.
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The Governors were not simply parsimonious: in truth they continued to be deeply concerned about the financial state of the School.
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In this sense it is not surprising that the study of social policy has been deeply concerned with the improvement of policies.
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They were deeply concerned about Prince Charles's decision to give up shooting as well as his inclination towards vegetarianism.
directly
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With the particular merits and demerits of these proposals I am not here directly concerned .
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It is directly concerned with individuals, with their minds and with their own way of looking at things.
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You will find your professional abilities to be in constant demand and you will be directly concerned with the provision of services.
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It is likely to occur to an individual directly concerned with the problem.
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The majority of blacks are working class and many black organizations are directly concerned with improving their class situation.
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On a more general level, the past was often implied in works which were not directly concerned with portraying it.
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The directly concerned populations are invariably viewed as passive recipients of plans.
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That is, it is not directly concerned with material gain; delinquency centring on vandalism or violence is an obvious example.
increasingly
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Local conservationists have become increasingly concerned about the impact of the booming trade in wild fungi in the region.
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Five years ago, increasingly concerned about the environment, he decided to work directly for an environmental group.
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Research is increasingly concerned with evaluation of services as well as assessment of need.
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I am increasingly concerned that validators increasingly fail to use as an important criterion the total experience of a student.
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Police became increasingly concerned for their prisoner's health over the weekend.
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Feminist psychologists are also increasingly concerned to avoid dogmatism and prescription.
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Field studies were also important for early efforts to monitor the environment, an area with which governments were increasingly concerned .
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Nevertheless ecology has started with that which is obvious to the eye and is increasingly concerned with what is not.
mainly
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My criticisms are mainly concerned with Blake's handling of some major theoretical issues and with certain parts of the book.
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These factories are mainly concerned with manufacturing product for artists signed to the record company.
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In Formen Marx is mainly concerned with other contradictory combinations of incompatible social principles.
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Governments, like theoretical economists, tend to be mainly concerned with the short run.
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Our report is mainly concerned with 1984 onwards.
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This is mainly concerned with economic restructuring and agricultural development, a considerable part of it linked to the environment.
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The museum is mainly concerned with the local textile industry, and is particularly good on the period of the Luddite riots.
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The school ethos was mainly concerned with turning out well-educated, potential wives of professional able-bodied men.
more
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In other parts of the country, youth justice workers are more concerned about the massive backlog of cases.
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And now we're more concerned with our little rules than with what's going to happen to mummy in the future.
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Instead of putting all her efforts into resisting him, she'd been more concerned about not admitting her love.
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I am much more concerned that Eve gets well and is aware that we have all made things easier.
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Health People are becoming more and more concerned about the healthiness of their diet and way of life.
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But I am much more concerned with the reputation of the Liberal Democrats.
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We also have an over-compassionate bench and judiciary more concerned with the theory of justice than with its practical implementation.
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Generally, the Sussex men were more concerned with good government and the maintenance of reasonable religion than major social change.
much
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In fact, hip hop and body pop aren't so much concerned with pure aggression as with survival.
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In any case, Weber is not very much concerned about the absence of popular control over the political elites.
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They were charming and friendly and very much concerned to hear that Fontaine is missing.
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The revisionist theorists were also, however, much concerned with strong and stable government.
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He or she is not house-proud or much concerned with appearances.
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He's not much concerned with other people's feelings or wishes.
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Elderly diarists were rare, and younger diarists not much concerned with observing the old.
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Nor is it much concerned with exceptions to the rule that, to every effect, there is one principal cause.
particularly
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Neither have women's organisations been particularly concerned with occupational schemes of family allowances.
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Foreign usage is not particularly concerned with the documentary character of a constitution.
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Durkheim was particularly concerned with the issue of order in society.
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We have been particularly concerned in this study with the large to very large enterprise.
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For example, if the business is a retail operation the purchaser will be particularly concerned about the level and quality of stocks.
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It is particularly concerned to ensure fair and equal treatment for all shareholders.
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Geaga was particularly concerned about the presence of fighters loyal to his arch-rival, Elie Hobeika.
primarily
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Although primarily concerned with routine white-collar work, Braverman does believe that some professional jobs have also become deskilled.
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Few of the canvases are primarily concerned with landscape, but it tends to find its way into most of them.
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The case was primarily concerned with the new procedure for remedies.
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In contrast, government spending on transfer payments is primarily concerned with equity and income redistribution.
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In conclusion, budgetary accounting is primarily concerned with the form of the financial accounts rather than their content.
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While written tests are primarily concerned with the content objectives, mathematical investigations submitted as coursework test the process objectives.
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In its early days the Association was primarily concerned with campaigning for garden cities.
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As with the Merseyside Task Force, they were to be primarily concerned with project development and not with issues of strategy.
so
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This is why I was so concerned when we were making the new set of the Beethoven symphonies in 1977.
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She was so concerned about her unborn baby, she usually over-reacted to any untoward symptom.
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Tepilit would question her about her interest in Masai women and why she seemed so concerned with their unremarkable tasks.
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She's so pretty, and so concerned about the planet!
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The other Protocol parties might not be so concerned about the breach and not take any steps in response.
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In a work so concerned with the transmission of cultural values this is appropriate.
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That is why the hon. Gentleman is so concerned .
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The club are so concerned , they held a top level meeting this week to stop any more defections.
very
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I mustn't keep you away from her, but will you tell her that my wife and I are very concerned ?
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He says that they are very concerned .
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Fatima was very concerned about her health, but Jane was amused to note that there was nothing wrong with her lungs.
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Trade unionists say they're very concerned about the allegations.
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But in general, parents love their daughters, and are very concerned about them and their welfare.
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I am very concerned about women, their rights and how they are looked after and protected at work.
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They tend to be very concerned with a good social life and the concept of freedom.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
as/so far as I'm concerned
as/so far as sth is concerned
have a right to be angry/concerned/suspicious etc
immediately involved/affected/concerned etc
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Civil society is constituted by the social relationships and processes outside paid employment and not immediately affected by the state.
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Henry's memory, of course, seemed only defective in matters that immediately concerned him.
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No one is more anxious that the penalties should be apt for the crime than those most immediately affected by prison disorder.
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The availability of land played a crucial part in relations between the landowning class and those immediately concerned with its cultivation.
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The hearing is technically in public, though it is very rare for anyone other than those immediately involved to be present.
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The problem is to convince those who are not so immediately affected.
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Those most immediately affected given support.
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We are not immediately concerned whether they are based on off-line, optical discs or on online technology by way of broadband networks.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Concerned parents approached the school about the problem.
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A TV programme about cruelty to children brought hundreds of letters from concerned viewers.
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I'm very concerned about Veronica. She looks so pale, and she has no appetite.
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Rescuers are concerned for the safety of two men trapped in the mine.
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World governments are becoming increasingly concerned about rising global temperature levels.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As far as restarting the musical life in Vienna was concerned , we had the problem that the occupying forces often contradicted each other.
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Counselling is concerned with maintaining the quality of life of older people for as long as possible.
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Face validity reflects the extent to which the test items appear to be concerned with the abilities in question.
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I didn't know enough about any of the personalities concerned to form any views of my own.
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The new economic climate of the late sixteenth century brought advantages and disadvantages so far as the funeral was concerned .
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These tended to portray him as being concerned with little more than his own power.
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This confidence seems unjustified, at least as far as capital asset charging is concerned .